My reverse lookups don't work (was: Re: How do I test reverse lookups?)

[Yan Seiner]

OK, I'm stumped.

I've set up everyting the way I think it should be set up.  We use a
bogus internal domain (cardinal.lan) for which portia is the DNS server.

I've set up both the cardinal.lan and in-addr.arpa domains.  Forward
lookups are fine.  Reverse lookups produce this:

[root at aphrodite /root]# host 192.168.0.1
1.0.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer iago.cardinal.lan

or, in verbose mode:

1.0.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA.  1D IN PTR  iago.cardinal.lan.
0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.  1D IN NS  portia.cardinal.lan.
portia.cardinal.lan.    1D IN A         192.168.0.2
rcode = 0 (Success), ancount=1
1.0.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA        86400 IN        PTR    
iago.cardinal.lan
For authoritative answers, see:
0.168.192.in-addr.arpa  86400 IN        NS      portia.cardinal.lan
Additional information:
portia.cardinal.lan     86400 IN        A       192.168.0.2

Win32 boxes, which use DHCP, cannot log on to the DNS server using samba
with this config.  When I go back to my caching only name server, all is
well.  I am stumped.

Snippets from the files:

named.conf:

zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa"{
        type master;
        file "named.hosts.rev";
};
zone "cardinal.lan"{
        type master;
        file "named.hosts";

named.hosts:

@               IN      SOA     portia.cardinal.lan.  bind.cardinal.lan.
(
                        2007022700 ; serial
                        28800 ; refresh
                        14400 ; retry
                        360000 ; expire
                        86400 ; default_ttl
                        )
                IN      NS      portia.cardinal.lan.
                IN      MX      10 portia
;localhost
localhost.      IN      A       127.0.0.1
;aliases
mail            IN      CNAME   portia
www             IN      CNAME   aphrodite    

;servers
iago            IN      A       192.168.0.1
portia          IN      A       192.168.0.2
aphrodite       IN      A       192.168.0.3

named.hosts.rev:

[root at portia named]# cat named.hosts.rev
@               IN      SOA     portia.cardinal.lan.  bind.cardinal.lan.
(
                        2007022700 ; serial
                        28800 ; refresh
                        14400 ; retry
                        360000 ; expire
                        86400 ; default_ttl
                        )
                IN      NS      portia.cardinal.lan.

;servers
1               IN      PTR     iago.cardinal.lan.
2               IN      PTR     portia.cardinal.lan.
3               IN      PTR     aphrodite.cardinal.lan

Any help at all is greatly appreciated.....

--Yan

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